Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, 30 May 1916, Page 1

Attention was drawn to the dearth of veterinary surgeons by a- speaker at the -," Auckland provincial conference of. \ the ,'•■ New Zealand Farmers' Union-., .last week',' {states ,the Auckland' Herald).'>.' >. Replying 1 '\ • to a suggestion- that dairy herds. should) I j f b© inspected with the object 'of a ting unsatisfactory animals, . that in one district, 'carrying'.between' -' 10,000 and 15,000 cattle, 'there was nob ' one qualified -veterinary surgeon*.',' .Whe- , ,' , ther or not that was due to the war -he' did not know. It was no -use appealing - ' for help from the Government, because there were no veterinary-, officers to spare. ". .-.'1,,. r An instance of the hardships. some-" times attending upon flarmingi in the ' | North was given .-by a witness\ ini -the' ;'„' Supreme Court at \Vanganui this. week. > "' ! During the past year 300 ; out qf.'HOO ewes had been lost' through a ■ disease of the head. One-third of the total of .■ 900 lambs had perished' • from another complaint, the owner having to sell' the remainder at 10s per head' to prevent' , further losses, and owing to the drought' and pests the whole of a 209-acre crop ' • of turnips was los*». ' ' * *i The; financial position created' by the war is causing the Wellington Education) Board some concern, says the Post., The annual report states that the Board re- --' cognises the need for,' and -has always i . practised, economy in its administration ; ' • but it has failed to perceive in the financial and trading . operations of the'Do- \ ■ minion that lack of money which has' , been urged byi the 'State as a reason for • reduction of expenditure even where expenditure is shown to be advisable'. ' 'The , records of trade, of racing, of the *' * totalisator, of the drink ill, of the pictheati'e, of holiday traffic," it is stated, "all point to a full ability to' pay for those things which the people < ■ desire. Surely, then, it can- hardly be"' seriously suggested that this -people,', . while tjuite able to pay for its ".plea-.v sures, as either-unable or unwilling, to?"., pay the just charge, however large; for.'.,", the sound education of its children." •"-'